Overview
Generative Scene Networks (GSN) represent a paradigm shift in 3D content creation, moving beyond static Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) into the realm of truly generative 3D environments. Developed as a collaborative framework to decompose complex scenes into local radiance fields, GSN enables the synthesis of high-fidelity, view-consistent environments from low-dimensional latent vectors. Unlike traditional GANs that operate on 2D pixel grids, GSN learns the underlying 3D distribution of a scene, allowing for continuous camera navigation and interaction without the 'texture crawling' or temporal artifacts common in video-based generation. By 2026, GSN has transitioned from a specialized research paper codebase into a foundational architecture for 'World Models,' utilized extensively in robotics for synthetic data generation and in the gaming industry for procedural level design. Its technical architecture utilizes a hybrid approach, combining a global latent space with local conditioning to maintain structural integrity over large spatial scales, making it uniquely suited for unbounded indoor and outdoor environment synthesis.